They do love a triumphant comback in the USA don't they?
Seems hard-baked into their identity. Recurring theme in music, film, literature. I think that's part of the reason for Trump's success - if he can win again so can 'Merica. Or something.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 8:46, archived)

I find most hard to understand their complete failure to identify an underdog,
They'll call a millionaire with millionaire backers an underdog just because he's happy to say racist stuff on TV
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 17 Jan 2025, 8:51, archived)

I reckon it's the conspiratorial mindset baked into their national identity.
If he's challenging the Deep State, he must be an underdog, right? Even if he spent 4 years in control of the Deep State, and is about to have another 4.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 8:56, archived)

I think it's because they're stupid racist cunts
Just like him.
( Smash Monkey 2 Anyone know a good therapist in South Africa?, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 8:59, archived)

Thank goodness everything is so straightforward.

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:00, archived)

Flat eart, pizzas for peados and all that shit.
it's spreading like gonorrhoea at an orgy.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:01, archived)

Look I've already apologised about that.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:28, archived)

You wouln't say that to their faces though
(because guns and stuff)
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:08, archived)

You don't stick your head in a tiger's mouth and then flick his spuds

( Smash Monkey 2 Anyone know a good therapist in South Africa?, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:53, archived)

Not unless your arms are about six feet long, anyway

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:53, archived)

A wet towel would work

( Smash Monkey 2 Anyone know a good therapist in South Africa?, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 10:46, archived)

Seems like a bit of a waste to develop the skill and technique required, only to have your head bitten off.
And isn't that just like life?
(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 12:17, archived)

"Now you say zat!" says one of Siegfried & Roy in a dodgy German accent

( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 12:35, archived)

Some of the more interesting creatives get it
Marty McFly's dad in Back to the Future, though Robert Zemeckis is an outlier. But for the most part you're right, it's the strong, moral, handsome hero dishing out just deserts to the baddies. The hero falls but then makes a triumphant comeback. Even the more interesting Westerns follow the formula.

I think the rest of the world is much more attracted to an anti-hero.

Here in the UK we go a bit far and seem to prefer losers. I mean, we are delighted when the film ends up with tragic failure and misery.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:00, archived)

A love of losers, failure and misery is definitely what keeps me coming back to /talk.

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:02, archived)

triumphantly?

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:06, archived)

More with a sense of weary belonging.

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:18, archived)

We do love a comeback with a sense of weary belonging in the UK, don't we?

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:25, archived)

I think this is what we can always rely on pepople to be better at than AI
I'm not sure a LLM can ever be as miserable as us.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:06, archived)

*grumbles*

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 9:18, archived)